PyData London News October 2019

59th Meetup

Host: Man Group

In [3]:
Image(filename="images/pydata_logo.png", width=600)
Out[3]:
In [4]:
IFrame('https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct/', **default_size)
Out[4]:

NumFOCUS

  • US-based charity in support of open-source scientific computing
  • Financial and admin support for many open-source projects
  • Support for many community events
  • https://numfocus.org
In [5]:
Image('images/numfocus.png', **default_size)
Out[5]:

PyData

In [6]:
Image('images/pydata-map.png', **default_size)
Out[6]:

PyData London

In [7]:
Image('images/pydata-london-screenshot.png', **default_size)
Out[7]:

Get Ready for Python 3.8

  • First Release Candidate about to be released

Some new features:

  • Assignment expressions (a.k.a. the walrus operator)
  • f-string supports = to debug expressions
  • Positional-only function parameters
In [9]:
IFrame("https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html", **default_size)
Out[9]:

PyCon DE + PyData Berlin - October 9-13

  • https://de.pycon.org
  • Talks and workshops 9-11 Oct
  • Sprints 12-13 Oct
  • Multiple tracks, lots of PyData presentations
In [10]:
IFrame('https://de.pycon.org', **default_size)
Out[10]:

PyCon Ireland in Dublin - October 12-13

In [11]:
IFrame('https://pycon2019.python.ie', **default_size)
Out[11]:

Python Open Source Hackathon by Man Group

https://www.man.com/hackathon2019

  • When? Saturday 2nd November 2019
  • Where? Man Group Riverbank House office (next door)
  • Contribute to some well-known Data Science projects (e.g. pandas, scikit-learn) with guidance from some of the core developers
In [8]:
Image('images/man-hackathon.png', **default_size)
Out[8]:

PyData Cambridge - November 15-17

In [12]:
IFrame('https://cambridgespark.com/pydata-cambridge-2019/', **default_size)
Out[12]:

PyData London 2020 - May 15-17

Venue: the Tower Hotel on St. Katharine's Docks

Tutorials on Friday

Keynotes, talks and more on Saturday-Sunday

Call for Proposals announced later this year

Free childcare support

Diversity scholarships

Speaker mentorship programme

Beginners Workshop

All proceeds benefit NumFOCUS

In [ ]: